Re: ACPI events for laptop special buttons

[Alexey Starikovskiy <aystarik@gmail.com>]

Hi,
There is driver to handle events from eeePC hardware
drivers/platform/x86/eeepc-laptop.c
You should probably start from making sure you have this one loaded.

Regards,
Alex.

andreas pålsson пишет:
> Hello.
>
> I recently bought a cute little Eee PC and of course I decided to run
> Linux on it.
> But some special buttons/keys doesn't work, like the "special FN key +
> F3" which disables touchpad.
>
> I did some research and if I understand it correctly, pressing those
> buttons generate "ACPI events" which could (until it was recently
> deprecated) be read from "/proc/acpi/events".
>
>
> So now to my question, how do I catch those events?
>
> Is it possible to read them from user-mode (like to have a nice graph
> showing if touchpad/wifi is online or offline)?
>
>
> I've not been digging around in the kernel before so I don't have yet
> much understanding how things work, but one has to start somewhere and
> a simple task like "is button pressed?" seems like the right thing. :)
>
> Thank you.
>
> PS. Apologies if this is the wrong list for questions like this.
>   

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